I have an alternate take on this.
Although I don't publicise this much, I'm presently the National
Convenor of the India Against Corruption movement (the apolitical
part of India's Occupy movement after it split in Nov 2012).
We see definite evidence of global military-industrial-financial
The homepage of Cris Moore at the SFI has a lot of interesting stuff, for
example this page about the n-body problem
http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~moore/gallery.html
Does anyone know him? Does he a have a Twitter or Google+ account?
-J.
Sent from my
The WhatsApp/FaceBook deal was a surprise for me, I simply wasn't hip
enough to even *know* about WhatsApp.
Well, it turns out its a replacement for SMS. We folks in the US don't use
SMS which originated in the cellular system early on as a way to get all of
the third world able to message
Here's a good clip on the deal:
WhatsApp has garnered over 450 million monthly active users globally with
70% active on any given day, higher than the 62% engagement rate Facebook
Inc (NASDAQ:FB http://www.valuewalk.com/stock-data/?stock_symbol=NASDAQ:FB)
reported
last quarter. It facilitates
Yes, it is a SMS replacement. It offers SMS functionality with iPhone bubble
view, a lot of icons/smilies and easy photo and video exchange. It is very
popular here in Europe, nearly everyone I see in the subway uses it. In the
first year it is free of charge, in the following years about 1$.
There are, I believe, several larger messaging apps with strong followings
outside the American market. See this article
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/05/technology/chinese-messaging-app-gains-ground-elsewhere.htmlabout
WeChat from a year and a half ago.
Is it just me, or has the future lost
Sorry to barge in like this, I've been just a lurker on this list for
years. Here I am writing something.
WhatsApp is very popular in Germany/Europe. On my last trip over there I
finally had to get it, too, just to communicate with friends and family.
Facebook paid way too much money. The whole
Don't both iPhone and Android have built in alternatives that just use the
network? A brief search showed iPhone had one. SMS as a carrier service is
so yesterday.
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Christopher Koch
christop...@reiswerk.dewrote:
Sorry to barge in like this, I've been just a
So much technology for so much trivial and superficial purposes ... as
similarly and amply portrayed (perhaps unintentionally) on Generation
Like http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/generation-like/ (PBS
Frontline 2) ... it's all about ads.
Robert C
On 2/22/14 1:33 PM, Owen Densmore
The Internet was conceived and first implemented by a small group of government
and university researchers: J. C. R. Licklider, Bob Kahn, Vint Cert, and
several other pioneers. (So when I hear Silly Valley Libertarians go on and on,
the best I can do is laugh.)
My question to this august
It's all a big ho hum here too. I very rarely use SMS (maybe 1-2
messages per month, which are effectively free, and in any case comes
out of a different budget than IP charges, which WhatsApp et al use),
as its an inferior platform to email. WhatsApp, Viber, Line just seem
to be more of the same
On 2/21/14 8:50 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
But what? They really want to know.
If they don't know what they want, why do they want it?
Marcus
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In Italy, when visiting friends and the school we attend, SMS is used far
more often than voice. Easily 5/day during class, 2 otherwise.
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.auwrote:
It's all a big ho hum here too. I very rarely use SMS (maybe 1-2
messages per
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